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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1906
Page
7
A rural farming column offers practical guidance on fruit picking, soil nutrition, and dairying. It highlights mature Keiffer pears, wheat yield surpassing 1901, and the use of milk scales and Babcock testers for dairy efficiency. The piece also discusses crop rotation, library investments for farms, and Arkansas apple production profits. It references farmers’ unions in Oklahoma and the role of salt in dairy and cheese making.
Mrs Henry Kuippen near Cloverdale decapitated two children aged three and one half and four, while Dora Bright 18 of Foster Missouri killed herself at Wichita Kansas. County attorney files first degree murder info. Also notes Niagara Falls preservation honor for Theodore Burton and factory accident in Minneapolis. A U S cruiser Boston aftermath at Bremerton and a Pickett Tennessee shooting leaves one dead and others injured. Battling Nelson fouls Joe Gans in final round. both exhausted.
George Holt and Lester Crentz of Moline Illinois prepare for an ambitious three year bicycle circumnavigation. Their route spans Europe Africa Asia and the Pacific with landings in Liverpool Stockholm Timbuctoo and Hawaii before finishing in San Francisco. They carry endorsements from multiple governors and the National Geographical Society and speak five languages.
Kenneth Melger of Vanceboro Maine recounts a near death with severe throat inflammation and lung congestion. Three doctors gave him up to die before a last resort using King’s New Discovery, which he says saved his life. The drug is guaranteed and available at C J Haydon’s drug store with trial bottles free.
Alarm over absinth causing mental and physical decline prompts France to seek a national ban. Physicians, deputies, and business leaders back a petition to prohibit manufacture and sale, citing thousands of deaths and widespread social decay. The piece cites Belgian actions and moral panic about inherited harm and crime linked to the drink.
A Toledo Blade report relays physicians opinions on beer, arguing it harms health more than whisky. Dr. Burgen and Dr. Thorn describe kidney and liver damage, dropy, pneumonia, and other maladies linked to beer, labeling it an insidious temperance enemy cited in a U S Senate speech by J H Gallinger.
Mr James N Nichols of Vernon Connecticut, merchant and postmaster, testifies that a child burned on the hand found quick relief using Chamberlain's Pain Balm after cold applications worsened inflammation. He credits the liniment for stopping inflammation and advises its use for cuts burns strains and lameness. Described as carried by reliable dealers in the Blue Grass.
Dr Dawson Burna analyzes official 1905 UK liquor returns and finds a near 25 million decline in expenditures on intoxicating beverages. He notes the year continues a six year trend of reduced spending, with 1904 showing over 28 million less. Total six year drop around 110 million.
Boyle County Herald reports a 30 inch bean left at the office by Rev. B. Helm, grown on W. L. Caldwell's Lebanon pike farm. A corn field bean and a camphor tree leaf, notable for size and novelty, were also presented. Camphor trees originate in China.
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